When Do You Begin the Rehab Process?

Certainly it's never too early, honestly, after a brain injuryto start looking at what the person's need and what their treatment would be.Certainly after mild brain injuries or concussions,early on there's certainly a much higher rate of people getting better.An important role early on is more in the education factorand symptom treatment after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury,maybe someone who was hospitalized after their brain injury.Those people should be transferred, should be getting acute inpatient rehabilitationor outpatient rehabilitation depending on the severity of their problems,really as soon as they're medically stabilized.Clearly, getting people out of the hospitalized settingand getting them into the rehabilitation settinghas been shown to improve outcomes and to speed up recovery just in general.

When it comes to rehab after TBI, the earlier the better — and the more thorough, the better the outcome.

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